A44342:1114
The application of redemption
The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit of Christ, for the bringing home of lost sinners to God ... by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Or else (which we cannot but judge and mention as another Cause hereof) it hath been professedly held forth (by men holy and spiritual) that all that⟨image 250⟩ […] not scandalous in their lives, having in […] Knowledge, the Form of Truth, by […]; adding thereunto some outward […] Duties. Such Persons we mean, as […] were in our Pulpits, plainly […], but Civil, Moral […] (and […] really but such kind of Professors of […], as Mutatis mutandis, are found […] Turks of Mahumotanism; who […] the Principles of that […], and are devout in Duties to God, […] thereby, through the mere […] of Natural Devotion, and Education, […] Laws and Customs of that Religion; […] also through Moral Honesty, are not […] in their Lives.) Such like […] amongst us, have been, and that […] a New […] of Religion, with […] also from others (the Ignorant […] Profane) professedly received […] the Communion of Saints, as visible Saints. […] Principle, and Practice, hath (as it […] needs) weakened and embased the […] purer stamp of the Doctrine of […] (as then held forth with such ⟨image 251⟩evidence of difference from these […] Profession) not only by encouraging such boldly to take on them to be […] (as it were) by Authority; but also by having checked, and flatted the spirits […] themselves that would teach it, seeing that this Real Application in Practice, and Principle, to such Moral Christians as Saints, is a manifest Contradiction unto all […] can be Doctrinally said in the Pulpit to the contrary, concerning the power […] this great work in true Saints. And […] the Profession of Religion hath been levelled, and diffused into that bulk and commonness, that the true marks of saving Graces, are (as to the open discerning) much worn out, and will be more and more, if this should obtain.
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